In other games

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Georgia Tech 38, Virginia Tech 27
— Playing at Blacksburg, Va., for the second consecutive year,
Reggie Ball
and the Yellow Jackets jumped to a big lead in avenging last year's 51-7 to the Hokies.
With Ball finding receivers
Calvin Johnson
and
James Johnson
with ease and mixing in enough of his own running to keep the No. 11 Hokies guessing, the 24th-ranked Yellow Jackets led 21-0 after 11 minutes.

• Michigan 28, Minnesota 14 — Chad Henne got the sixth-ranked Wolverines off to a fast start with three touchdown passes in the first half en route to a victory over the Golden Gophers at Minneapolis.
Henne was 17-for-24 for 284 yards, and Mike Hart rushed for 195 yards — 54 on his final carry of the game — for the Wolverines (5-0, 2-0 Big Ten).

• LSU 48, Mississippi State 17 — JaMarcus Russell threw for a career-best 330 yards and matched a school record with 14 consecutive completions as No. 9 LSU beat Mississippi State in Baton Rouge, La., in a game delayed nearly an hour by a thunderstorm.
Russell threw three TD passes and completed 18 of 20 passes without an interception.

• Notre Dame 35, Purdue 21 — Brady Quinn threw for 316 yards and two touchdowns, and Darius Walker ran for 146 yards as Notre Dame played its best offensive game of the season in beating Purdue in South Bend, Ind.
The No. 12 Fighting Irish withstood a big day by Curtis Painter and the Boilermakers' offense. Painter was 23-for-46 for 398 yards, and Selwyn Lymon had eight catches for 238 yards — the second most by a Purdue receiver and the most ever by an Irish opponent.

• Tennessee 41, Memphis 7 — In Memphis, Tenn., Erik Ainge threw four touchdown passes as No. 15 Tennessee had an easy time beating cross-state rival Memphis.
Ainge, pulled early in the fourth quarter, completed 23 of 27 passes for 324 yards, including two TD tosses to Jayson Swain and an 84-yarder to Robert Meachem.

• Clemson 51, Louisiana Tech 0 — James Davis ran for 143 yards and two touchdowns to lead three Clemson rushers with more than 100 yards apiece as the 18th-ranked Tigers crushed Louisiana Tech in Clemson, S.C.
Clemson (4-1) posted its first shutout in six seasons and is off to its best start in five years.

• California 41, Oregon State 13 — Nate Longshore threw for 341 yards and four touchdowns, two to Marshawn Lynch, as No. 20 California defeated Oregon State in Corvallis, Ore.
Lynch finished with three touchdowns for the Bears, running 15 yards for another score.

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Longshore's 39-yard TD pass to Lavelle Hawkins gave Cal the early lead. Before the first quarter was over, Longshore found DeSean Jackson with a 27-yard scoring pass, and Lynch's TD run made it 21-0.

• Boise State 36, Utah 3 — Jared Zabransky passed for 210 yards and a touchdown and ran for a score as No. 22 Boise State turned what was expected to be the Broncos' toughest test this season into a blowout of Utah in Salt Lake City.